LrC keeps importing from folders/drives not selected....

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November 15, 2020
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I am trying to get LrC running. I have specific folders I want to import into the catalog. I select Import, then select specific folders to import, click Import and off it goes. Eventually it starts importing from other folders on other drives that were not originally selected for import. I can't get it to stop doing this.

Letting it run it's course and going back to "remove" the other folders is very time consuming and isn't what I should be required to do as I didn't select those folders/drives in the first place.

I have tried several times to get it to work the way I assume it's supposed to, to no avail.

Help....

tia,

Monte

Import and export

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DdeGannes

Community Expert

The screen capture of the import dialog show that "include sub folders" is selected and Z drive is selected for the import. If all the other drives are also somehow connected to the Z drive and maybe all the photos on the drives are being imported.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

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montejw360Author

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I don't think "Z" is selected. Only one folder on Z is selected.

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montejw360Author

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There are no images in the folder "!Monte files", only in the sub folders. If I don't have "Include Subfolders" selected nothing gets imported.

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

I'm not familiar with mapped drives, but maybe Lightroom doesn't play well with them.

Have you tried importing from the actual physical drive instead of the Z drive?

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montejw360Author

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Can't do that. Folders are hidden on the other physical drives. I can unhide them, but not sure of the complications I'd end up with. And each file is duplicated on at least 2 of the other drives. Drive failure protection.

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

I don't see anything wrong in the import dialog.

But you do realize that this will import almost 50,000 images?

Because you have Include Subfolders checked, the import will include all the subfolders of the selected folder.

Or maybe you just clicked a random folder for the screenshot?

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montejw360Author

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Yes, I understand there are a lot of images there. Do you remember Picasa? I am trying to use LrC like that. Find all images so I can organize them. Maybe not the right use case.

BUT, why does LrC keep going off track? My laptop has 2 physical drives, C and D. The other physical drives shown are in an external enclosure. I am using a program (Stablebit DrivePool) that takes those drives and maps them to a single "mapped" drive (Z).

But why does it keep going into my OneDrive folders/drives which aren't even shown in the Folder tree?

Thanks.